The speed and memory requirements [of Opera] are fantastic compared to everything else out there.
It isn't hard to write efficient programs. The reason Firefox is slower is because a lot of it is written in Javascript, so it can be easily extendable (Firefox extensions beat anything Opera has to offer). Firefox was not written to be fast and use little memory, it was written to be easily modified and extended.
Interestingly, if the Javascript parser/runner was optimized in Firefox, it would provide speed increases for most of the application. I imagine there would be someone working on this.
Will this make it easier to reverse engineer the graphics drivers, since they will now be in userspace? This could really help the effort to write working 3d graphics drivers for Linux.
on the contrary, IPv6 will allow multiple people behind that firewall to have dcc transfers, and do ftp much more easily. no more ftp or irc modules required to nat shit around...
The whole point of a firewall is to drop packets that could be malicious. Just because all the computers on the network have their own public addresses doesn't mean you should pass along everything that gets sent to it.
[regarding long IPv6 addresses] now, can you explain where you see a human being remembering the address in question ?
If you've ever tried to troubleshoot DNS problems you would know how important it is to know important IPs. AAAA records just aren't helpful when the DNS server is broken.
Do we really have to throw this much money into the volcano?
I'm glad there are other people questioning the use of an "upgrade" to IPv6. I think one of the biggest problems with IPv6 is the mandatory IPSec (encryption) between hosts. This makes it almost impossible to do any filtering of packets, and you can't know if any outgoing traffic is wanted or unwanted. From a business perspective, I don't think administrators will be that happy to have their firewalls become almost useless for filtering data. I think internal networks will all keep using IPv4 for this reason.
Keep in mind that there are really good reasons to want to filter traffic. For example, when I connect to an FTP server and ask for a file, my firewall knows what port I've asked the firewall to send to and will allow the incoming connection. IPv6 users will only be able to use "passive" protocols (say goodbye to DCC transfers on IRC, and lots of multiplayer games). Lastly, who wants to remember an IP address like 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334/64.
I didn't even realize it until you mentioned it, but what's up with the modding? I used to get mod points on a weekly basis, but I think it's been over a year since I've had any mod points.
I sent an email to CmdrTaco about this last week. His response:
The most common reason people stop getting mod points is that the
site selects moderators for a group of 'typical' readers... and
usually people actually end up reading to [sic] much Slashdot and slide
outside that 'typical' zone:)
For users outside of the US and UK Live Local is the better one.
I live in Australia, and Google Maps zooms in close enough to just see my house and car. With Windows Live I can barely see my city. They are using different map services, so I guess it just depends where you live.
Isn't the complaint that everyone here on Slashdot makes against it that it's unfalsifiable- unable to be proved false?
People tend to get confused when there's so much nonsense being generated by both evolutionists and creationists alike.
Someone who is religious can say that God created the world and the creatures living on it. This can't really be proved or disproved by any scientific means. However, some other people who are religious are taking that one step further and saying 'how' God did it with claims that can be (dis)proved (eg, saying the Earth is 6000 years old and created in a week). People criticize creationists for being unscientific and being highly dogmatic, but in truth I have seen the same kind of crap from evolutionists too. People in both groups have some very good arguments though -- if you are willing to be objective about listening to them.
Many Christians I have spoken to (including some highly respected university lecturers), don't think it matters whether the earth is 6000 years old or 4.5 billion years old. To them the Bible is about saying why God made the world, not when or how he went about creating it. The book is highly poetic and not necessarily written to be scientifically accurate. Most of the media these days with headlines like 'Evolution vs God' and stuff are just needlessly promoting a facile view that religion is incompatible with widely promoted scientific theories.
Similar stories have been reported in places like New Scientist (best example I could find at the moment) for several years. Often they just come to a conclusion that dogs, once trained, are far easier to handle than wasps and live a lot longer.
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We already have this -- It's called a Wife. They alert you when you're going over the speed limit and make it increasingly difficult to press on the accelerator.
If you have the space, it's way better to just buy $25 worth of shielded extension cables for your monitor, TV, audio, keyboard and mouse; put the computer around the corner or in the next room. I got my VGA cable for $15 (shielded), and two PS/2 cables for $5 each, then made my audio cables for a couple of dollars from good shielded wire and plugs. All 5 metres long. You can probably get this stuff cheaper if you look around.
The only disadvantage is that you have to walk to the next room to put in a CD, but this is something I don't need to do very often. Compared to the time it takes to burn a CD or even just read a CD's TOC, walking around the corner is well worth the lasting peace and quiet. Why spend hundreds of dollars extra on hardware just to cut down noise?
Essentially, it's a total bullshit patent attempting to own the concept of having an interactive server/client style application embedded in a webpage.
Before everyone goes posting about MS vs Google rubbish, please RTFA. This has very little to do with Google.
"This issue could potentially allow an attacker to access content in a separate Web site, if that Web site is in a specific configuration," Microsoft said in the statement.
In other words, this flaw is just loading files from Google Desktop's internal http server. It could load the internal http server of hundreds of different programs (particularly administration tools).
I'm sure this system would work if the honeypots were evenly distributed among IP blocks but they simply can't be (huge chunks of the IPv4 address space are already taken). A worm might infect hundreds of thousands of computers before ever hitting one of the honeypots. Even if the honeypot gets it and sends it to an AV company, and they issue an immediate update, it takes hours for everyone to get updated. History's most damaging worms were able to infect millions of computers within this kind of timeframe.
Also, what if someone manages to find one of these honeypots and sends an exploit with a payload containing a competitors software signature? Would the AV company start issuing immediate updates? What kinds of systems are in place for preventing this?
Does the internet chemically change your mind? Does one become physically dependent on the internet?
It's entirely possible; almost anything can cause chemical addiction. While the Internet isn't actually inserting chemicals into the blood stream, it can have affects that will change chemical levels. Some examples:
Regularly staying up late
Lack of sunlight
Repetitive or compulsive behaviour, especially from things with intermittent rewards (refreshing Slashdot actually causes the same kind of addiction as gambling).
Anything at all that makes you happy, sad, angry (reading trolls on Slashdot) or invoking some other emotion
Poor eating patterns
...
Any of these can increase different hormones/chemicals in the blood stream, or reduce them (which usually induces an increase in something else), and can cause eventual chemical addiction.
If not, then how is this different than, say, pen and paper D&D?
Note many of the things listed above apply to other things as well, but the Internet provides a level of access to these things that is very hard to get elsewhere for sustained peroids of time. You can't play pen and paper D&D while you're at work, or at 1am after your friends have left - but you can go online and find any one of millions of things to do or read. People who are addicted to the internet can spend 16 hours a day online and that is something that can't be done with other addictions so easily.
Try nntp//rss. http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
As for an online and pre-existing service like Gmane, I don't know. This allows you to run your own local nntp server for rss feeds though.
What would stop me from purchasing a copy of the software for sale, change a byte or two, call it derivate work, and sell it for a lower price? Sorry forr n00bness here, but I've never seen a good answer for this one.
Maybe you haven't seen a good answer because you haven't read the GPL FAQ?
If I distribute GPL'd software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge? No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
Have you seen Windows code? or you are getting this from the bottom of your ass?, Comeon, dont say something just to sound clever... you do not sound clever.
Like I said, 'I would like to think that...'. Do I really need to explain myself? I have no idea if it will ever happen, but I think it's possible. And yes Microsoft really does intentionally break compatability between releases, and especially with their competitors. There's plenty of software that doesn't run in later versions of Windows. Think Windows 3.11 software, Windows 98 software and even Windows NT software that doesn't run on XP. Don't believe that Microsoft 'makes all the effort' to improve compatability. They precisely calculate exactly how much compatability they need to get users to upgrade, but to then break compatability with the Windows version 2 releases earlier in the process.
Ofter [sic], actually, generally. So, I can conclude from your post that you do not know a shit, and you are only trolling.
I'm pretty sure you're the one that's trolling. The 'often' and 'generally' were referring to two different things. Often software runs faster under wine that it does in windows, try for yourself if you don't believe me. And generally (ie, in general) this is because the linux kernel is more efficient than the Windows kernel.
I wouldn't call myself a full-fleged wine developer but I stay in touch with some of their paid developers and I have submitted several enhancements and bug fixes to wine. I think that gives me some credence when making my comments.
Looking at the results, I have to ask, how representative was the sample group? Was it, as it appears, entirely self-selected? And what does that say about the validity of the results?
They mention this in the full report under the section 'Statistical Anomalies'. "The survey had more exposure in certain distribution communities..."
And the second most important application is "Digital Camera/Video?"
Actually, the question that this answer comes from is "What mobile device support is required to meet your business user's needs?" It should also be noted that this was a 'Select all that apply' type question.
Wine has come an incredible way since it's conception. I am amazed by how well it runs some games (and other Windows software) these days. I think it's safe to say that by the time the Linux desktop is polished enough for average Joe, wine will have advanced to a point where it runs most Windows games/software very acceptably.
I would like to think that one day wine will actually be better at running Windows software than Windows itself is. This is possible because while Microsoft is intentionaly breaking compatability between releases, wine is being developed to run programs from any Windows version. Often programs actually run faster in wine as well, since the linux kernel generally manages things better.
As someone who has read enough books on music to know what they are talking about when they say 'We chose this song because it features x and y', I can honestly say this doesn't mean much. I think genre and statistical comparisons between users has a far greater impact on what songs it chooses than what they suggest in their FAQ/info pages.
The whole idea of analyzing a song for different qualities is great, but it really doesn't get you very far with something like this. I can think of a million songs with 'Mild rhythmatic syncopation' and 'Major key tonality' (just an example of the reasons it told me it was playing a song), and I would probably only like a small portion of them. I suspect that the genre of my song (eg 'Hard rock roots' or 'punk roots' etc) is the biggest deciding factor in what it plays -- not the actual style of the song.
I do like the site, unfortunately though after around 3 hours of using it, it stopped giving me new songs that I liked; it just played song's I already said I'd liked, or songs I didn't like. One interesting thing is that is uses basic mp3 files for the music, so it's actually not too hard to download the mp3's directly from the server if you log the right packets.
Pity they'll be putting ads on it (soon).
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The speed and memory requirements [of Opera] are fantastic compared to everything else out there.
It isn't hard to write efficient programs. The reason Firefox is slower is because a lot of it is written in Javascript, so it can be easily extendable (Firefox extensions beat anything Opera has to offer). Firefox was not written to be fast and use little memory, it was written to be easily modified and extended.
Interestingly, if the Javascript parser/runner was optimized in Firefox, it would provide speed increases for most of the application. I imagine there would be someone working on this.
you could prove that there have been men on the moon
That could be done just as easily with an unmanned mission.
Damnit Gravity, you win again!
Will this make it easier to reverse engineer the graphics drivers, since they will now be in userspace? This could really help the effort to write working 3d graphics drivers for Linux.
on the contrary, IPv6 will allow multiple people behind that firewall to have dcc transfers, and do ftp much more easily. no more ftp or irc modules required to nat shit around...
The whole point of a firewall is to drop packets that could be malicious. Just because all the computers on the network have their own public addresses doesn't mean you should pass along everything that gets sent to it.
[regarding long IPv6 addresses] now, can you explain where you see a human being remembering the address in question ?
If you've ever tried to troubleshoot DNS problems you would know how important it is to know important IPs. AAAA records just aren't helpful when the DNS server is broken.
Do we really have to throw this much money into the volcano?
I'm glad there are other people questioning the use of an "upgrade" to IPv6. I think one of the biggest problems with IPv6 is the mandatory IPSec (encryption) between hosts. This makes it almost impossible to do any filtering of packets, and you can't know if any outgoing traffic is wanted or unwanted. From a business perspective, I don't think administrators will be that happy to have their firewalls become almost useless for filtering data. I think internal networks will all keep using IPv4 for this reason.
Keep in mind that there are really good reasons to want to filter traffic. For example, when I connect to an FTP server and ask for a file, my firewall knows what port I've asked the firewall to send to and will allow the incoming connection. IPv6 users will only be able to use "passive" protocols (say goodbye to DCC transfers on IRC, and lots of multiplayer games). Lastly, who wants to remember an IP address like 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334/64.
I didn't even realize it until you mentioned it, but what's up with the modding? I used to get mod points on a weekly basis, but I think it's been over a year since I've had any mod points.
:)
I sent an email to CmdrTaco about this last week. His response:
The most common reason people stop getting mod points is that the site selects moderators for a group of 'typical' readers... and usually people actually end up reading to [sic] much Slashdot and slide outside that 'typical' zone
For users outside of the US and UK Live Local is the better one.
I live in Australia, and Google Maps zooms in close enough to just see my house and car. With Windows Live I can barely see my city. They are using different map services, so I guess it just depends where you live.
Isn't the complaint that everyone here on Slashdot makes against it that it's unfalsifiable- unable to be proved false?
People tend to get confused when there's so much nonsense being generated by both evolutionists and creationists alike.
Someone who is religious can say that God created the world and the creatures living on it. This can't really be proved or disproved by any scientific means. However, some other people who are religious are taking that one step further and saying 'how' God did it with claims that can be (dis)proved (eg, saying the Earth is 6000 years old and created in a week). People criticize creationists for being unscientific and being highly dogmatic, but in truth I have seen the same kind of crap from evolutionists too. People in both groups have some very good arguments though -- if you are willing to be objective about listening to them.
Many Christians I have spoken to (including some highly respected university lecturers), don't think it matters whether the earth is 6000 years old or 4.5 billion years old. To them the Bible is about saying why God made the world, not when or how he went about creating it. The book is highly poetic and not necessarily written to be scientifically accurate. Most of the media these days with headlines like 'Evolution vs God' and stuff are just needlessly promoting a facile view that religion is incompatible with widely promoted scientific theories.
Similar stories have been reported in places like New Scientist (best example I could find at the moment) for several years. Often they just come to a conclusion that dogs, once trained, are far easier to handle than wasps and live a lot longer.
DO NOT WORRY, my GOOD FRIEND.
PHISHING claims many LIVES, but YOU TOO can be SAFE when you use our SECURE SOFTWARE to protect your family from PHISHING. BUT alas, my COMPANY lacks FUNDS to share this SECURE SOFTWARE with GOOD PEOPLE like you. THIS TRAGIC moment for our company can only be FIXED by your kind SERVICES. PLEASE transfer ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS to me at the GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA so we can all SHARE this SECURE SOFTWARE.
ATTACHED is a special TRIAL of this very SECURE SOFTWARE, just for YOU. DO NOT HESITATE to protect yourself from the deadly THREAT of PHISHING.
We already have this -- It's called a Wife. They alert you when you're going over the speed limit and make it increasingly difficult to press on the accelerator.
If you have the space, it's way better to just buy $25 worth of shielded extension cables for your monitor, TV, audio, keyboard and mouse; put the computer around the corner or in the next room. I got my VGA cable for $15 (shielded), and two PS/2 cables for $5 each, then made my audio cables for a couple of dollars from good shielded wire and plugs. All 5 metres long. You can probably get this stuff cheaper if you look around.
The only disadvantage is that you have to walk to the next room to put in a CD, but this is something I don't need to do very often. Compared to the time it takes to burn a CD or even just read a CD's TOC, walking around the corner is well worth the lasting peace and quiet. Why spend hundreds of dollars extra on hardware just to cut down noise?
You can see the Patent Here.
Essentially, it's a total bullshit patent attempting to own the concept of having an interactive server/client style application embedded in a webpage.
Before everyone goes posting about MS vs Google rubbish, please RTFA. This has very little to do with Google.
"This issue could potentially allow an attacker to access content in a separate Web site, if that Web site is in a specific configuration," Microsoft said in the statement.
In other words, this flaw is just loading files from Google Desktop's internal http server. It could load the internal http server of hundreds of different programs (particularly administration tools).
I'm sure this system would work if the honeypots were evenly distributed among IP blocks but they simply can't be (huge chunks of the IPv4 address space are already taken). A worm might infect hundreds of thousands of computers before ever hitting one of the honeypots. Even if the honeypot gets it and sends it to an AV company, and they issue an immediate update, it takes hours for everyone to get updated. History's most damaging worms were able to infect millions of computers within this kind of timeframe.
Also, what if someone manages to find one of these honeypots and sends an exploit with a payload containing a competitors software signature? Would the AV company start issuing immediate updates? What kinds of systems are in place for preventing this?
It's entirely possible; almost anything can cause chemical addiction. While the Internet isn't actually inserting chemicals into the blood stream, it can have affects that will change chemical levels. Some examples:
- Regularly staying up late
- Lack of sunlight
- Repetitive or compulsive behaviour, especially from things with intermittent rewards (refreshing Slashdot actually causes the same kind of addiction as gambling).
- Anything at all that makes you happy, sad, angry (reading trolls on Slashdot) or invoking some other emotion
- Poor eating patterns
- ...
Any of these can increase different hormones/chemicals in the blood stream, or reduce them (which usually induces an increase in something else), and can cause eventual chemical addiction.If not, then how is this different than, say, pen and paper D&D?
Note many of the things listed above apply to other things as well, but the Internet provides a level of access to these things that is very hard to get elsewhere for sustained peroids of time. You can't play pen and paper D&D while you're at work, or at 1am after your friends have left - but you can go online and find any one of millions of things to do or read. People who are addicted to the internet can spend 16 hours a day online and that is something that can't be done with other addictions so easily.
Try nntp//rss. http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
As for an online and pre-existing service like Gmane, I don't know. This allows you to run your own local nntp server for rss feeds though.
Maybe you haven't seen a good answer because you haven't read the GPL FAQ?
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
Have you seen Windows code? or you are getting this from the bottom of your ass?, Comeon, dont say something just to sound clever... you do not sound clever.
Like I said, 'I would like to think that...'. Do I really need to explain myself? I have no idea if it will ever happen, but I think it's possible. And yes Microsoft really does intentionally break compatability between releases, and especially with their competitors. There's plenty of software that doesn't run in later versions of Windows. Think Windows 3.11 software, Windows 98 software and even Windows NT software that doesn't run on XP. Don't believe that Microsoft 'makes all the effort' to improve compatability. They precisely calculate exactly how much compatability they need to get users to upgrade, but to then break compatability with the Windows version 2 releases earlier in the process.
Ofter [sic], actually, generally. So, I can conclude from your post that you do not know a shit, and you are only trolling.
I'm pretty sure you're the one that's trolling. The 'often' and 'generally' were referring to two different things. Often software runs faster under wine that it does in windows, try for yourself if you don't believe me. And generally (ie, in general) this is because the linux kernel is more efficient than the Windows kernel.
I wouldn't call myself a full-fleged wine developer but I stay in touch with some of their paid developers and I have submitted several enhancements and bug fixes to wine. I think that gives me some credence when making my comments.
Looking at the results, I have to ask, how representative was the sample group? Was it, as it appears, entirely self-selected? And what does that say about the validity of the results?
They mention this in the full report under the section 'Statistical Anomalies'. "The survey had more exposure in certain distribution communities..."
And the second most important application is "Digital Camera/Video?"
Actually, the question that this answer comes from is "What mobile device support is required to meet your business user's needs?" It should also be noted that this was a 'Select all that apply' type question.
Wine has come an incredible way since it's conception. I am amazed by how well it runs some games (and other Windows software) these days. I think it's safe to say that by the time the Linux desktop is polished enough for average Joe, wine will have advanced to a point where it runs most Windows games/software very acceptably.
I would like to think that one day wine will actually be better at running Windows software than Windows itself is. This is possible because while Microsoft is intentionaly breaking compatability between releases, wine is being developed to run programs from any Windows version. Often programs actually run faster in wine as well, since the linux kernel generally manages things better.
As someone who has read enough books on music to know what they are talking about when they say 'We chose this song because it features x and y', I can honestly say this doesn't mean much. I think genre and statistical comparisons between users has a far greater impact on what songs it chooses than what they suggest in their FAQ/info pages.
The whole idea of analyzing a song for different qualities is great, but it really doesn't get you very far with something like this. I can think of a million songs with 'Mild rhythmatic syncopation' and 'Major key tonality' (just an example of the reasons it told me it was playing a song), and I would probably only like a small portion of them. I suspect that the genre of my song (eg 'Hard rock roots' or 'punk roots' etc) is the biggest deciding factor in what it plays -- not the actual style of the song.
I like the user interface, but it would be cool if they would allow us to enter more than one "seed" artist.
You can enter more than one "seed" artist/song. Just open the properties for the radio station and add more.
I do like the site, unfortunately though after around 3 hours of using it, it stopped giving me new songs that I liked; it just played song's I already said I'd liked, or songs I didn't like. One interesting thing is that is uses basic mp3 files for the music, so it's actually not too hard to download the mp3's directly from the server if you log the right packets.
Pity they'll be putting ads on it (soon).